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Beginning his adult life as a doctor, Bulgakov gave up medicine for writing. His first major work was the novel
Belaya gvardiya (
The White Guard), serialized in 1925 but never published in book form. A realistic and sympathetic portrayal of the motives and behaviour of a group of anti-Bolshevik White officers during the civil war, it was met by a storm of official criticism for...